Creating Connections: Museums and the Public Understanding of Current Research - Softcover

Nye, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075910476X ISBN 13: 9780759104761

Verlag: Altamira Press, 2004

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Creating Connections looks at the public understanding of research (PUR) and how it affects what science museums do. What are the opportunities and critical issues in PUR? What strategies are working and what are some pitfalls? What can be learned from the media’s experiences with PUR? Creating Connections will be an invaluable resource for science museum professionals who want to guide their institutions and their visitors toward a new understanding of and appreciation for current research.

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John H. Falk is executive director of the Institute for Learning Innovation and Sea Grant Professor Emeritus of Free-Choice Learning at Oregon State University. He is known internationally for his work in the area of free-choice learning; the learning that occurs while visiting museums, science centers, zoos, aquariums, parks, watching educational television or surfing the internet for information. His recent research has focused on studying the long-term impacts of free-choice learning institutions; understanding why people utilize free-choice learning settings during their leisure time and helping cultural institutions of all kinds re-think their future positioning and business models in the 21st century. Dr. Falk has authored over two hundred scholarly articles and chapters and has published more than a dozen books in this and related areas.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 075910476X
• ISBN 13: 9780759104761
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 394
• Herausgeber: Lewenstein Bruce V, Lewenstein Bruce V., Chittenden David, Farmelo Graham
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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